ivory tower
英 [ˌaɪvəri ˈtaʊə(r)]
美 [ˌaɪvəri ˈtaʊər]
n. 象牙塔(指逃避问题、脱离现实的小天地)
牛津词典
noun
- 象牙塔(指逃避问题、脱离现实的小天地)
a place or situation where you are separated from the problems and practical aspects of normal life and therefore do not have to worry about or understand them- academics living in ivory towers
生活在象牙塔中的学者
- academics living in ivory towers
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 象牙塔(指脱离实际生活的小天地)
If you describe someone as living in anivory tower, you mean that they have no knowledge or experience of the practical problems of everyday life.- They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
他们身处象牙塔中,并不真正了解毒品犯罪的危害有多大。 - ...ivory-tower intellectuals.
象牙塔中的知识分子
- They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
英英释义
noun
- a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place
- he lived in the ivory tower of speculation
- they viewed universities as ivory towers
双语例句
- My classmates are married, and I was hiding the ivory tower;
我的同学们都成家立业了,我还在象牙塔里躲藏; - University campus is a beautiful ivory tower, where every occurrence of a life story of the journey will be a treasure.
二大学校园是一座美丽的象牙塔,在这里发生的每一个故事都将成为人生旅途中的宝贵财富。 - The professor lives in an ivory tower; he does not pay much attention to current events.
这位教授生活在象牙塔中,不太关心时事。 - We hope that people here don't just live in an ivory tower.
我们希望这里的人们不要只是生活在象牙塔中。 - Isolated in their ivory tower of learning, they kept their distance.
他们将自己孤立在学习的象牙塔中,与别人保持距离。 - With the development of our society, the campus no longer is an "Ivory Tower".
随着社会的进步,大学校园不再是一个象牙塔。 - We need to recognize that development knowledge is no longer the sole province of the researcher, the scholar, or the ivory tower.
我们需要承认,发展知识不再是研究者、学者或象牙塔的唯一领地。 - The professor be shut up in the ivory tower all the time.
教授整天在象牙塔里呆着。 - The spirit of change has even begun to take root inside the ivory tower.
变革的精神甚至已经开始在象牙塔内部扎根。 - In most countries, universities have tried to erase their ivory tower image.
大多数国家的大学都试图去掉其象牙塔的印象。